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Meet Lauren ~ Founder & CEO of Bloom

Lauren created Bloom, a Workplace Well being Training Provider & Consultancy in 2024, with a heart-led mission to revolutionise workplace mental health & well being support for businesses across West Wales and beyond.

After a career spanning 20 years in the Veterinary industry working for private & corporate- run practices, she experienced first hand the importance of compassionate leadership and trauma-informed education for leaders. Lauren has channelled her innate love of helping and healing from animals to people, and now is a visionary leader in the workplace well being space.

Lauren has completed the ICF & CPD accredited Somatic Trauma Informed Coaching certification with The Mental Wellbeing Company, and proudly became the only founding partner in Pembrokeshire. She continues to channel her passion for psychosomatic education along with her own personal experiences of trauma, allowing her to fully utilise her expertise in a variety of settings. From large corporate businesses to schools and individuals, she has now dedicated her career to empowering individuals and organisations in becoming trauma-informed.

With a longstanding career in the veterinary sector, Lauren has always thrived in caring roles, and developed her innate ability to connect with people from all walks of life. Over time she developed her coaching and mentoring skills, and honed in on this natural flair in helping others to help themselves. She has an innate ability to empathise, understand and define a problem, and delivers a variety of trauma-informed solutions with compassion and integrity. Combining her natural characteristics and passions, she is committed to transforming schools and workplaces, fostering cultures of compassion and resilience, with a fundamental goal of improving mental health and wellbeing. Whether she's guiding clients through personal growth or delivering impactful presentations, her infectious energy and commitment to trauma- informed mental health and wellbeing education shine through in all that she does.

My Qualifications

  • Certified and Accredited Somatic Trauma Informed Coach

  • BSc (hons) Psychology Student

A Message From Caroline Strawson

CEO & Founder of The Mental Wellbeing Company

Caroline Strawson is a globally recognised mental health and nervous system educator, therapist, and coach.

She has lived experience of homelessness, domestic abuse, debt, and mental illness. Having not only survived, she has gone on to become a world-leading expert in the study and education of mental health and human behaviour. Caroline brings a wealth of knowledge to her mission of making mental health and trauma mainstream subjects for all.

Through founding the Mental Wellbeing Company, she is leading a movement to make trauma informed awareness and positive psychology tools the norm in schools, workplaces, public sector organisations, and beyond.

Her vision is a world where every human understands their nervous system, leading to more compassion, passion, resilience, and thriving.

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Healing is not a destination, but as your journey unfolds and you heal yourself, you heal the next generation, too.

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